Sometimes you find the real treasures when looking at things from a different perspective. While plenty of churches have beautiful stained glass windows, fascinating gargoyles, and stunning works of art to distract your eye, simply raising your gaze heavenward can provide the most stunning view of all. The crick in your neck will be totally worth it.
Templo Expiatorio del Santísimo Sacramento, Guadalajara, Mexico
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Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris, France
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Sistine Chapel, Vatican City
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The Church of Hallgrímur
Reykjavík, Iceland
Air Force Academy Chapel
Colorado Springs, CO
Cathedral of Maringá
Paraná, Brazil
Chapel of Notre Dame du Haut
Ronchamp, France
See-Through Church
Brussels, Belgium. A see-through church is pictured on a hilltop in Borgloon, 80 km (50 miles) East of Brussels, Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013. The church, designed by Belgian architec duo Gijs Van Vaerenbergh has been chosen by visitors of architecture website Archdaily as building of the year 2012, and is made with 100 layers of steel and weighs 30 tons. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)
Thorncrown Chapel
Arkansas, USA
Saint-Michel d’Aiguilhe chapel
Le Puy-en-Velay, France
Chapel of the Holy Cross
Sedona, AZ
Cathedral of Rio de Janeiro
Pope Francis celebrates Mass at Rio de Janeiro's Cathedral, Saturday, July 27, 2013. Pope Francis on Saturday challenged bishops from around the world to get out of their churches and preach, and to have the courage to go to the farthest margins of society to find the faithful.. Pope Francis is on the sixth day of his trip to Brazil where he attends the 2013 World Youth Day in Rio.
Church of Paraportiani
Mykonos, Greece
Zipaquirá Salt Cathedral
Cundinamarca, Colombia
Metropolitan Cathedral
People walk in front of the Metropolitan Cathedral in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday , Oct. 5, 2011. The cathedral is lit in pink to mark October as the Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
St. George's Church
LALIBELA, ETHIOPIA - MARCH 19: Visitors walk past Bete Giyorgis, also called St. George's Church, at the Lalibela holy sites on March 19, 2013 in Lalibela, Ethiopia. Lalibela is among Ethiopia's holiest of cities and is distinguished by its 11 churches hewn into solid rock that date back to the 12th century. Construction of the churches was begun by Ethiopian Emperor Gebre Mesqel Lalibela, who sought to create an alternative pilgrimage site after the Muslim occupation of Jerusalem. Lalibela was the capital of Ethiopia until the 13th century.
Borgund Stave Church
Lærdal, Norway
Cardboard Cathedral
Christchurch, New Zealand
Las Lajas Cathedral
Colombia, South America
Harajuku Church
Tokyo, Japan
Christ Cathedral/Crystal Cathedral
Garden Grove, Orange County, California, U.S.A.
St. Basil's Cathedral
Moscow, Russia
Catedral de Nuestra Señora del Pilar
Mejorada del Campo (Madrid) España
Chapel of St. Gildas
Brittany, France
Santuario della Madonna Lacrime
Sicily, Italy
Snow Church
Visitors stand inside a church made entirely of snow and ice in southern Bavaria on January 14, 2012 in Mitterfirmiansreut, Germany. Local enthusiasts built the church at the end of December in an effort to relive a tradition dating back over 100 years. In 1910 the residents of Mitterfirminsreut were cut off from their local parish by a heavy snowstorm, and since the village was without its own church, they were unable to attend Christmas mass. Then in January of 1911, in an act meant in protest against local authorities whom they felt had forgotten them, the residents built their own church out of the material they had most in abundance at the time: snow. This year the snow church, backed by a local association, is scheduled to stand through February and has quickly become a local tourist attraction. (Photo by Johannes Simon/Getty Images)
Grundtvigskirken
Copenhagen, Denmark
Inflatable Church
Father Michael Elfred, a church minister from Tadworth, Surrey stands outside the world's first inflatable church which has been erected May 13, 2003 in Sandown, England. The church stands 47ft tall from floor to steeple, comes complete with inflatable organ, candles and stained glass windows, and can hold up to 60 people. Father Michael later performed a service a dedication for the church. (Photo by Hugo Philpott/Getty Images)
Évry Cathedral
Exterior view of the Roman Catholic cathedral in Evry, south of Paris, the first cathedral to be built in France in over 100 years. The structure, made of red brick, covers 1,074 square meters. The first mass is due to be celebrated on 11 April. AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read PASCAL PAVANI/AFP/Getty Images)
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